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To Michael Foster   29 [June 1871]

Summary

Thanks him for curare.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Michael Foster
Date:  29 [June 1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7837

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To Michael Foster   6 June [1871]

Summary

Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].

Invites him to visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Michael Foster
Date:  6 June [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7803

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  • … between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . See letter from …

To [W. W. Baxter?]   [early July 1871]

Summary

Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.

Are measuring glasses accurate?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  [early July 1871]
Classmark:  The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9524

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  • … between this letter, the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] , and the letter to …
  • Michael Foster , who had two stocks of the poison, one of which was purchased in Leipzig (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter

From Michael Foster   20 September 1871

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Offers his services for the future.

Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 164: 164
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7957

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  • … CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to Michael Foster, 29 [June 1871] . …
  • Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n.  4. Foster was praelector in physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1870. He established practical courses in biology and physiology, and became the first university professor of physiology in 1883 ( ODNB ). See letter

From Michael Foster   25 June 1871

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Summary

Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 June 1871
Classmark:  DAR 164: 163
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7831

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  • … Mercy Elizabeth Foster . See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Bickley is about …
  • … See letter to Michael Foster, 6 June [1871] . Foster may refer to the New Oxford and …

From Michael Foster   [26 June 1871]

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Summary

Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 June 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 141–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7834

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From Michael Foster   4 June [1871]

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Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 June [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7800

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  • … between this letter and the letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 . For CD’s questions, …

To Francis Darwin   6 June [1871]

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Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".

Has invited Michael Foster to Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  6 June [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 271.3: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7806

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  • … to the North British Review . See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Francis was …
  • … an extraordinary kind letter and little Essay from Michael Foster: he offers to come down …

To W. W. Baxter   8 August [1871]

Summary

Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  8 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7900

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To Michael Foster   26 June [1871]

Summary

Invites MF to visit.

Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Michael Foster
Date:  26 June [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7832

Matches: 1 hit

  • … See letter from Michael Foster, 25 June 1871 . CD returned home on 30 June 1871. He spent …
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